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Text of report in English by state-run Vietnamese news agency VNA website [Unattributed article from the "Business" page: "Vietnamese, Guangdong sign projects worth 1.6 billion USD"] Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnamese businesses and their partners from China's Guangdong signed 22 projects worth nearly 1.6 billion USD at the Vietnam-Guangdong economic and trade seminar Vietnam-Guangdong economic and trade seminar held in Hanoi on September 9. Most of the projects involve electricity, electronics,...

Text of report in English by state-run Vietnamese news agency VNA website [Unattributed article from the "Politics" page: "Deputy PM welcomes Chinese delegation"] Hanoi (VNA) -Vietnam always creates favourable conditions for Guangdong province's businesses to boost investment and cooperation in Vietnam , said Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem. While receiving Secretary of China's Guangdong provincial Party Committee Wang Yang in Hanoi on September 8, Deputy PM Khiem...

Text of report by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) [By reporters Han Qiao and Huang Haimin: "Nong Duc Manh Hopes That Guandgong Province Will Strengthen Economic and Trade Cooperation With Vietnam"] Hanoi, 9 Sep (Xinhua) - General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nong Duc Manh expressed hope on 8 September that China's Guangdong Province will continue to strengthen cooperation with Vietnam in the fields of economy, trade, investment, and energy so as to...

Report finds 20 pct of Guangdong shore polluted by sewage GUANGZHOU, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- About one-fifth of the coastal waters near south China's Guangdong Province are polluted by industrial and domestic sewage, a government report said. The 2007 Guangdong Oceanic Environment Quality report said 9,300 sq km of the shore had been polluted to some degree. The area accounts for 18.6 percent of the province's total inshore area. The Pearl River Delta was worst affected, according to the...

Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) [Xinhua by sewage: "Report Finds 20 Pct of Guangdong Shore Polluted by Sewage"] GUANGZHOU, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) - About one-fifth of the coastal waters near south China's Guangdong Province are polluted by industrial and domestic sewage, a government report said. The 2007 Guangdong Oceanic Environment Quality report said 9,300 sq km of the shore had been polluted to some degree. The area accounts for 18.6...

By Thomas L. Friedman I had the pleasure the other day of visiting the delightfully named Zhuhai Guohua Wonderful Wind Power Exploitation Co. in Zhuhai, on the southern coast of China. It's a good news/bad news story. The good news was that the Chinese engineers showed me their control room, which has a giant glass window that looks out onto their 21 wind turbines that crown the peaks of a nearby mountain. "How nice," I thought. "China's really starting to go green." But as my eye drifted...

By George Kerevan WHAT happens to the Chinese economy now the Olympic Games are over? The Beijing Games were a major boost for the Chinese economy, bringing a massive construction boom and a rise in tourism. This has helped offset the negative impact of the global credit crunch. With the Games over, will China continue to grow at its usual break-neck speed, or will collapsing demand for its exports, coupled with rampant commodity inflation, expose the Beijing Olympiad as the high-water...

Flights canceled in S. China as Typhoon Nuri approaches GUANGZHOU, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- Eighty-six flights going to south China's coastal Shenzhen City and Hong Kong were canceled as Typhoon Nuri approached, a major carrier said on Friday. In total, 18 flights heading to Hong Kong were canceled after 10 a.m. and 68 flights expected to arrive in Shenzhen after 3 p.m. were also canceled, a China Southern Airline official said. Three flights heading to the coastal city of Zhuhai and...

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the China industry is available in its catalogue. Aluminium extrusion industry in China http://www.reportlinker.com/p091125/Aluminium-extrusion-industry-in-China.html By end of 2000, the production of primary aluminum in China has totaled 2,817,000MT/year, only next to USA and Russia. The Chinese people have shown to the world the fast pace in developing the aluminum downstream products by fully utilizing the domestic...

Text of media release carried by Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade website on 12 August Addressing the opening session of a clean energy seminar in Guangzhou in southern China today, Australia's minister for trade, Mr Simon Crean, highlighted the critical role clean energy will play in tackling the global challenge of climate change, and encouraged Australian and Guangdong companies to develop commercial cooperation in clean energy. "Australia recognizes the need to embrace...